Theatre

While the Fountain of Tears bubbles before him, Giray, khan of the Tatars, is lost in brooding. Just as the flow from the marble fount cannot be exhausted, his own sorrow will never diminish, either. The story of the Fountain of Bakhchisarai is set in motion by a romance recounting the reason for the khan's gloom.

Marius Petipa – Albert Mirzoyan / Ludwig Minkus
LA BAYADÈRE
Classical ballet in three acts

Bartók Béla’s two highly influential stage works explore the dynamics of the relationship between man and woman and the deeper layers of their personalities, as presented by creators who, through a fusion of tradition and innovation, reveal the possibilities inherent in these works for 21st-century audiences.

Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
Fairy-tale ballet in two acts

Rudi van Dantzig – Toer van Schayk / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
Classical ballet in three acts

This ballet's plot is inspired by The Corsair, a famous verse written in 1814 by Lord Byron, who towered over an entire generation of English Romantic poets.

Gioachino Rossini
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
Language: Hungarian
Surtitle: Hungarian, English

Péter Tóth - Anna Mechler
Beauty and the Beast
World premiere
Fairy tale opera in Hungarian with Hungarian and English surtitle

Claude Debussy / Franz Liszt
L'enfant prodigue / La damoiselle élue / Sardanapalo
Cantata
Language: Italian, French
Surtitle: Hungarian, English, same-language

Giuseppe Verdi
Il trovatore

Marianna Venekei / Tennessee Williams / László Dés
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Dance-drama in two acts
Ballet version of the play of the same title by Tennessee Williams

A Streetcar Named Desire is Marianna Venekei's first full-length choreography. The project, lovingly nurtured for many years, is a collaboration between her and composer-saxophonist László Dés.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Singspiel in Hungarian and German with Hungarian, English, German subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Singspiel in Hungarian and German with Hungarian, English, German subtitles

“I've captured a terrific storm of elements and of hearts which gradually calms to Brünnhilde's magic sleep,” Wagner on the score of Die Walküre, in a letter to Ferenc Liszt. Following on the heels of the introductory Das Rheingold, this opera about the tragic love between two of Wotan's children constitutes the start of the more tightly drawn dramatic trilogy. Once again, the laws of the gods clash: can paternal love save a lad who has violated the sanctity of marriage?

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA
Opera in three parts, four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Gian Carlo Menotti
BASTIEN UND BASTIENNE / THE TELEPHONE
One-act operas in Hungarian, with Hungarian subtitles

Jenő Ádám, a student of Kodály’s and perhaps his greatest contemporary admirer, was also the one who structured and developed his pedagogical method: his Christmas one-act was the first work at the Opera House, which placed the pure Hungarian folk song on the same stage as the works of the great figures of classical music history. On Christmas 1931, Hungarian Christmas premiered with the theatre's greatest singers, conducted by the composer.

Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Georges Bizet
CARMEN
Opera in four acts, in French, with Hungarian, English, and French subtitles

Carl Orff
CARMINA BURANA
Scenic cantata in the original languages, with Hungarian, English, and same-language subtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Così fan tutte

Marius Petipa / Sir Peter Wright / Sir Frederick Ashton / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
Fairy tale ballet in three acts

Sol Leon – Paul Lightfoot – Hans van Manen – András Lukács – Harald Lander
Dancingly Yours
Sad Case, Trois Gnossiennes, Whirling, Études

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DON GIOVANNI
Opera in two acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English and Italian subtitles

Ede Poldini
Love Adrift
Comic opera in two parts, in three acts, in Hungarian with Hungarian and English surtitles

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Comic opera in two acts, in Italian, with Hungarian, English, and Italian subtitles

Gioachino Rossini – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Darius Milhaud
The Barber of Seville / The Marriage of Figaro / The Guilty Mother
Opera-mix in two parts, is Hungarian with Hungarian and English surtitles

A century ago, the world first encountered this remarkable opus, a work that soon became one of the cornerstones of twentieth-century musical innovation. Premiered in 1926, the singspiel is a milestone in Hungarian music history: its composer, Zoltán Kodály, fulfilled his aspiration to elevate Hungarian folk song of ancient origin to the same status as classical music, by virtue of its equivalent values, placing it on the stage of the nation’s Opera House.

Zoltán Kodály
Háry Jánoska
Language: Hungarian

János Hunyadi is responsible for the tolling of bells around the world; Mátyás Hunyadi is the hero of a string of folk tales; László Hunyadi inspired “only” an opera.

Pongrác Kacsóh
John the Valiant

Johan Inger – Sharon Eyal – Gai Behar – Hans van Manen
Keep in touch
Walking Mad, Bedroom Folk, Black Cake

Radina Dace / Léo Delibes
Little Coppélia
Children’s production for little ones, with English subtitles

Radina Dace / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
LITTLE SWAN LAKE - MVM Piccolo Programme
Children’s production for little ones
Please note, that this programme is in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.

Radina Dace / Pjotr Iljics Csajkovszkij
LITTLE SWAN LAKE
Children’s production for little ones
Please note, that this programme is in Hungarian and we do not provide any translations.